Welcome to the Perl 6 Workspace

Please feel free to add or modify pages -- even this one -- as you see fit. That's the idea of a Workspace.

What is Perl 6?

Larry Wall (c.2006): Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.

Perl 6 is:

Crazy (in a good way)

Perl 5 : Swiss Army Chain Saw == Perl 6 : Swiss Army T-X Terminator (on the side of humans in this case)

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What are people doing with Perl 6?

this

that

the other

General Perl 6 News

Planet Perl 6 blog aggregrator (The best general news source for Perl 6. It would be very helpful if others selectively copied the most useful information from this great resource into appropriate sections of this wiki.)

Perl 6 Synopses (This is the official Perl 6 specification, which supersedes the apocalypses and exegeses, and which is bundled with Perl 6 builds. The rapidly growing Perl 6 test base is another {very important, complementary, and emerging} part of the Perl 6 specification as well.)